Scott Horton interviews Will Bunch about his book Tear Down This Myth. Bunch's most interesting contention is that, on terrorism-related issues such as torture, "collateral damage," and treating terrorism within the confines of the ordinary criminal justice system, Reagan was far to the left of...
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People arguing that civilian trials are never appropriate for terrorist suspects are arguing from a position well to the right of the Bush administration (at least the 2006 version.) And.
The following sentence actually appears in a post on the site of a darling of conservative media:We have identified yet another tweet we would like [Roger Ebert] to retract[.]The "yet.
Faster, South Carolina, faster!South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes...
Because it's not impolite to bump your own post down, I'll throw up this link to me wondering how the titular embiggening happened (or was allowed to happen) on network.
We here at Lawyers, Guns and Money are solidly in the Roman Polanski belongs in prison camp, but we are also rank pedants, and the following sentence is something up.
The title should go without saying, but even among intelligent conservatives, sometimes it doesn't: The fact that a homicidal maniac shares your goals doesn't make you responsible for his methods. I never claimed otherwise. In point of fact, I didn't say that the ideological brethren...
The plan for the book I'm co-authoring is to have three or four substantial chapters focusing on 1) rhetoric generally, 2) the history of the medium, 3) the mechanics of.
The Other Scott already noted Glenn Reynolds's tendentious link and Steven Taylor's pithy rebuttal of its underlying "logic," but I wanted to focus on the quotation from Reynolds's reader in.
Having spent the better part of a decade now listening to people patiently explain why it's a good thing to pathologize the bodies of 71% of the American population in order to improve their health (68% of adults are supposedly "overweight" and "obese," and another...
Take my word for it: you do not want to watch this exchange between Ron Reagan and Pamela Geller. In it, Geller argues that she knows what Reagan Sr. would.
Now that one of the great wankers of our era has turned out to be a serial adulterer as well, would it be possible for NPR to desist from quoting.